European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago s the stars and strikes sunday. April 3, 1983 visitors love hair raising experience in China uniting a for about j3.000. Japanese Lou risks can me he great Wall cat peking Duck and fro hair Wilh Zhao Zhengguang s mysterious mag ical hair restoring ionic. A tour bus arrived Friday carrying 98 Bald and thin haired japanese for heir first treatment with i01 hair Lin imral. A liquid made from a secret recipe of about 30 medicinal herbs. It is the second japanese group following 20 who arrived in february to conic to China on a package tour hat includes treatment at Zhao s clinic at the Jinsong Hospital in Eastern Beijing. Among he first 20, some have already started to Crow hair said pc Niehhi Morita president of China Japan treat men Headquarters a private Tokyo medical firm sponsoring the ours. Most of the japanese said they signed up fur the trip after Reading in newspapers of the miraculous results of 101, which Zhao a former Farmer Wilh Only six years of formal education developed after 10 years of private research or. Liu Qirong the chief of 12 dermatologist at Zhao clinic said about 2,700 chinese Hare been treated in the past year Wilh 92 percent showing some new growth of hair. For people who have lost hair in patches the Success Rale is 100 percent she said. According to the. Official news Agency Xinhua More than 100,000 people have been treated with i since production began a year ago with an improvement Rale of 97.5 percent and a cure Rait of 84 percent. Zhao s results Haven t been independently verified. By comparison the anti baldness drug minoxidil recommended for approval by the . Food and drug administration had a Succes rate of 26 per a Cal of men in the 40-49 age group. For those younger than 30, the growth rate was 54 percent and ii was 41 percent to 45 percent in the 31-39 age group. Zhao s liniment Liu said Worts by stimulating circulation of the blood and cleaning out hair Folli cles. A second Medicine 102, is available to ensure int the new hair will not fall out. A photo chinese doctor heats the Bild Scalp of i japanese Hoy. One slightly balding 40-year-Olil Man from Osaka. Japan said he read about in cure in a Magazine and decided to join the Lour because ii s belter 10 have hair than nol to have  for some i is More serious. Yuji Mal Silhi 6. Year old from Fukuoka lost title his hair is months ago and japanese doctors have had no such ii in either identifying or living the problem Slid his or it Molher Yoshie Kuga. We have High Hopes. Nothing else has worked she said. Doctors said the ionic works better on people whose hair loss is fairly recent and they were optimistic Yuji s hair could Start coming Back after a month or two . They said treatment generally consists of dabbing the liquid onto the Scalp several times a Day Tor about sin months or As Long As it lakes for hair to grow Back. The Only Side of tort Liu said is Iasi the a clip often turns a Brownish color before the hair returns. One bottle of 01, which tails for about a month Sells Tor about 11z in China but Morita said the Price will soon shoot up to about 130. The chinese government which has not Given official approval 10 the Medicine has Given Zhao the go ahead to Cash in on his drug. The treatment is undergoing clinical tests in China and cannot be sold in stoics or hospitals Here or in any other country ii can however be purchased Dirac Fly from Zhao s clinic Tor personal use. Zhao who once Hod to sell hit Only pig to obtain Money needed id continue his research now operates two factories one in Central China s Zhengzhou and the other in Beijing. The Beijing Plant earned profits of about is 35.000 in its first year the official China daily reported. Liu said people from Japan West Germany Hong Kong Singapore the United slates and other coun tries have written about the treatment or come to the clinic and they Hope to begin exporting it once the Medicine is approved by various health agencies we re not in this for profit Liu said we re trying to cure people and when people Are cured it makes us  soviet Union Library fire colled notional disaster Moscow a a leading soviet scholar said a fire at the Academy of sciences that burned 400,000 books and periodicals was a National disaster but thai Library officials played it Down like the chernobyl nuclear Accident. Historian Dmitri like aches head of Fie soviet culture fund demanded dial lop officials a the Academy s Library in Leningrad be fired for lying about the sire of the loss and ordering a cleanup instead Ufa careful Salvage operation. The feb. 14 fire at the Library which stores publications dating Back to the 17lh a Colury can rightly be Cah cd a National Dialler Lik Jiachen said. Our culture has suffered a huge  his comments appeared in a Page Long article published in he March is edition of the weekly Book review. The scholar said -100.000 books and periodicals bad been destroyed in the Blaze and that 2,7 million More suffered Vator and moisture damage. The Library was founded by Pricr the Garcal in 1714 and according to the weekly contained about 12 million books periodicals and manuscripts. Like aches �1, charged the Library administration and the Leningrad scientific Center of the Academy of sciences both acted in he first Days according to the Model programmed by the mistakes of the chernobyl catastrophe they tried to Buti talc the cultural loss in the grossest  he was referring to soviet authorities initial attempts to Imelli up the world s worst nuclear disaster an april 1986 explosion at the chernobyl nuclear Power Plant in which at Kasi 31 people died and millions were exposed to increased Levels of radioactivity. Immediately after the fire Library administrator . Filo estimated the loss at Abom 14,800 and said the Library Zoum be own again in a few Days Lik Vachev said. The March 8 edition of the communist arty newspaper pravda said the cowl of the damage was at least s4so.ooo and added thai estimate was probably Low. It said the figure was based on 1956 value and that some of 1hc loss material was priceless. A Bulldozer was called and huge piles of burned dampened and undamaged books were destroyed like aches charged Library workers were prohibited from saving books from this Heap of ruins. All this in order to hide More quickly from the eyes of society the site of the  the Academy of science Library began collecting books manuscripts and periodicals in 1714, and for More than 200 years was la cried in a building on Leningrad s Vasiliye sky Island. In the 1920s it was moved to a new building built especially for it on the Island. Among the books destroyed was a Library of foreign medical books gathered by health official beginning in the 17th Century and libraries gathered by Baltic and polish royally of the 18ih and 19lb centuries like aches said the books damaged by moisture began to Mold less than a week after the fire and the Mold is a serious threat to cause Long term damage he said. Like aches warned thai the Institute of russian literature which holds Manu scripts of Pushkin.  Ler Ronlov and other famous russian writ in was also in danger. Thai building has not undergone capital repair in More than 150 years he said. Lekha Chov i article was the most serious and alarming of several Hal have appeared in he soviet press since the tire and was particularly striking for ill bitter tone. Filo was hospitalized after a Serin of official meeting and Hii assistant , Leonov left for Switzerland Lik Haeher said lie called for replacement of Library adminis Ralon saying icy conducted themselves in an insufficiently civilized  patients notified As surgeon Dies of aids London u1i health authorities Friday sought 10 reassure up to 400 Pali Ems of a surgeon who died of aids but continued conducting operations until just two weeks before his death. Officials Are investigating How South african bom or. David Coli Iris 31, who reportedly contracted acquired immune deficiency syndrome in Africa when begot the virus from n in Iceni was Able to keep working to within two weeks of his death monday. Medical aul Dorilu said they did not know of his illness until he was forced to Stop work. Colleagues said he had believed Hal he was sir ply suffering from a bad ease of the flu and a positive diag Nosis was Only made within the past week. Officials sifted through his patient lists at the two English hospitals where he worked Over he past eight months and set up special phone lines manned duh ceilings All night to answer i hair concerns. Health authorities offered to give them aids tests and counselling bul sought to reassure them by saying there was Only a Liny theoretical Chance thai they could have been infected by the sur Geon during his operation on them. There is no reason to panic said David King general manager of the am health Audi oily which runs the Euter Hospital where coding worked some 160 Miles Southwest of London. We be taken the Best medical advice we can from the department of health in Lon Don. And they assure us that Thyri s no known Case anywhere in tic world of a health worker or doctor transferring the infection to a patient. So they re Clear Hal hem s no real  aids an invariably fatal disease strips the body of is immune Vynce and is transmitted by sen infected blood or sharing infected Needles